December 2011

The past five months have been great ones here at Up Along First. I’d like to thank my Twitter followers and all of the people who have viewed this blog. I have big plans for this website. I just started a Facebook page and I am ready to go for hopefully a great 2012. Be [...]

This year was hardly one to remember for Met fans. Wit the team strangled in debt and scandal, it was hard to find positives in anything regarding the orange and blue. First, I’ll start off with the top three negative storylines of 2011, just to get them out of the way: 3) Johan [...]

In the January/February issue of Baseball Digest, they put out their annual player rankings. At the top was Ryan Braun, the NL MVP, who hit .332 this season. Behind him were players such as Matt Kemp, Miguel Cabrera, Michael Young, and Albert Pujols. At number 15, was Jose Reyes: “Despite [...]

I really just want to get to the point here: the Mets need to make a move for starting pitching that will help them long-term. Piecing together a rotation from pitchers left on the scrap heap and hoping to catch lightening in a bottle is not going to work forever. As a rebuilding team, many [...]

I’d like to wish everyone a great and safe holiday season. It is a pleasure to blog about the Mets (even in times like these) and I really enjoy your comments as readers. Every year, I hope that the Mets somehow pull it out of the bag, but it doesn’t happen. This annoys me to [...]

I was reading an artcle from the New York Times this morning and one part really struck me: Selig may never tell Wilpon he has to sell. But Selig could be waiting for banks to grow so concerned that they demand that Wilpon sell the team he has owned, outright since 2002, to recover all [...]

In one of the most, if not the most, ridiculous moves so far this winter, the Mets yesterday decided they would eliminate their minor league team in the Class-A Gulf Coast league. The GCL Mets, as the team is often reffered to as, is at the lowest level of the minor league. Last year, prospects [...]